Finally, become strong in the Lord through his power and might. Put on God's armor so you'll be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil, for ours is not a struggle with flesh and blood--we're fighting against the rulers and powers, against the cosmic powers of this dark world, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens. Ephesians 6:10-12
All the rulers of the nations of the earth, in spite of their antagonisms, suddenly participate in the same lies and punishing of dissenters for going on 3 years now.
There are no humans on the earth at this time capable of planning coordinating and executing this; not the WEF, WHO, UN, US - not any or all of them. It originates with and is guided by the Evil One in the spiritual realm.
Were it not for enslavement of US taxpayers to it, the massive parasite of the US military dictatorship, wouldn't exist, couldn't go around flattening the world, 78 years and counting. There will be no 'negotiations' with Russia, just as there are no negotiations with the American people. You want a southern border? HaHaHaHa...Someone had to stop the US, Inc. parasite. As a US taxpayer I relate very much to the Russian Federation. US, Inc. has treated both of us like subhuman garbage for decades. It has made me sick to watch intelligent, informed Russian officials treated as if they don't exist. 25 million Russian people died in WWII defeating Hitler. That fact was missing from history books when I was in school. Best wishes to the Russian Federation in its efforts.
I don't think that's it. I've been thinking about some of this for several days. It's hard not to be pessimistic at times, when you realize the forces arrayed against us.
The District of Corruption Empire has gotten so rotten that it is a risk to the rest of the world, no longer just a risk to its own denizens and vassals. A demented President* and his entire freakshow administration, a delusional, dis-informed population, over financialization and de-industrial policies, a shining city on the hill, not really, a giant burning garbage heap is more like it.
All 4 but 3 is the big one. The Russians are saying that from now on, it's only fair that those who are stoking global conflict and conflagration pay a PERSONAL price for their actions.
Indeed! He was all over this drone incident. I find it hard to believe the Russians could only save the engine. Me thinks that is what they are only admitting to :)
Shot: "According to Yellen, the legalization of abortion nationally 'helped lead to increased labor-force participation. It enabled many women to finish school; that increased their earning potential.'"
Chaser: "The financial system is not supporting the industrial base and the US has come to think of its problems in pure dollar terms."
Labor-force participation. Industrial base.
Needless to say, those of us who grew up in the 1970s got the message loud and clear that working in a factory was hell, and no one should be consigned to hell by reason of birth. Therefore all Americans should go to college and get a college degree and a desk job. Especially women, who should control parturition by abortion if necessary.
By the 2000s, it was right and just to ship our dirty manufacturing to China because developmentally, they needed that work while we were ready to move on into clean green knowledge work, and we would get paid royally for our unparalleled creativity.
DiMartino-Booth refers to the era of zero interest rates, in which "...you [the little guy or gal] can't make a decent yield on cash savings." Yes, ZIRP was unfair to the little guys and gals who didn't want to run out and buy stuff.
I recall AfD (Alternative for Deutschland) which emerged in Germany after the 2008 financial crisis with the simple slogan "Save Our Savers". Ordinary people in Germany did not want to bail out the PIGS. So AfD had to be kneecapped; it was discredited by linking it with far-right agitation that coincided neatly with mass migration from Syria and elsewhere.
"C’mon. We didn’t wind up in this situation—the rich at war to despoil the country and beggar everyone else—by some weird mistake. I won’t call it a conspiracy, but this didn’t happen by accident. The people who were smart enough to profit from this were also smart enough to suss out the consequences for everyone else. It’s war, and the face of evil."
Of course you're right: we have been asking for this for decades. Of course the people who were smart enough to profit from this were also the people who were smart enough to suss out the consequences for everyone else. But who were these people? I'm sure that when all is said and done and the 21st Century Nuremberg Trials are held there will be many held to account. Mrs Clinton, Obama, Biden, and the Sullivans, Blinkens, Yellens and Nulands, and the Faucis, will all be found in the dock.
To my mind, three additional candidates for eternal ignominy are the misleadingly-named 1999 Committee to Save the World: Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve; Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury; and Larry Summers, Rubin's Deputy. The name arises from a fawning 1999 Time Magazine article attributing demi-god status to the three. However, now, in hindsight, it looks like the hubris and arrogance of the three described in the article also describe perfectly the world view that has led the US to the brink of disaster. https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,19522,00.html
However, these three knew what they were doing. They were smart enough to see the potential profit for them and their acolytes and they were also smart enough to see the eventual consequences for everyone else. It was largely greed, and power, and access to power that motivated them, and so they charged ahead. Everybody got unbelievably rich over the ensuing 20 years. Now we are facing the consequences and, yes, it is war.
That last minute of Mercouris’ video was particularly moving. No-limits foreign policy, in which we throw our weight around instead of accepting other countries’ sovereign rights, carries over into no-limits monetary policy with the gov rescuing all those deep-pocket techies and big bucks donors…a real eye-opener - I’m just realizing what the consequences (yesterday’s post!) of such utter detachment from reality may be. Things are pretty bad when the Chinese sound moderate and rational!
Things are definitely hotting up on all fronts. There is simply no joined-up thinking on our side of the fence. Scary. And what is this Leftie thing with killing babies?
Plus destroying them after their born. I E this so called trans gender Bull shite. Doctors gleefully carving up little children’s bodies. When anything so insane ever been allowed by any civilized people?
This confirms that the drone was flying with transponders turned off and was attempting to approach the Russian ships that were launching missile strikes.
Full statement of Ministry of Defense of Russia:
On the morning of March 14 this year, an American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle flew over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula by means of the airspace control of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the direction of the State Border of the Russian Federation.
**The flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle was carried out with the transponders turned off, violating the boundaries of the area of the temporary regime for the use of airspace established for the purpose of conducting a special military operation, communicated to all users of international airspace and published in accordance with international standards.**
In order to identify the violator, fighters from the air defense forces on duty were lifted into the air. As a result of sharp maneuvering around 9.30 (Moscow time), the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle went into an uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface.
The Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons, did not come into contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle and returned safely to the home airfield.
Powell is bringing a forest fire to the US (and global) economy. Like all forest fires, it will burn off massive amounts of dead wood. The question for me is how much healthy forest will be left to grow back afterward.
Laws against conflicts of interest are for peasants, peons, serfs, not for feudal lords and ladies, knights, princes, princesses, kings, queens, emperors, the Great Khaan, or other potentates!
I would not be surprised at all if Russian EW capabilities were the means used to put the MQ-9 UAV into 'uncontrolled flight' . . . meaning not controlled by the USAF anymore. The propeller hit narrative reeks of BS and spin.
Precisely the reason for Putin's early-on characterization of the Clintonista, post-Realpolitik West as недоговороспособныe, or non-agreement-capable. Those blinded by dogma and academic theory will never be able to perform a reality-based assessment of exactly what can reasonably be achieved and conceded in a productive, real-world negotiation.
MSNBC's Katie Phang already on it..."If DeSantis thinks that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “territorial dispute,” he is a national security risk to the United States."
Foreign policy debates = national security threats. The new math.
All the rulers of the nations of the earth, in spite of their antagonisms, suddenly participate in the same lies and punishing of dissenters for going on 3 years now.
There are no humans on the earth at this time capable of planning coordinating and executing this; not the WEF, WHO, UN, US - not any or all of them. It originates with and is guided by the Evil One in the spiritual realm.
Do not comply.
Were it not for enslavement of US taxpayers to it, the massive parasite of the US military dictatorship, wouldn't exist, couldn't go around flattening the world, 78 years and counting. There will be no 'negotiations' with Russia, just as there are no negotiations with the American people. You want a southern border? HaHaHaHa...Someone had to stop the US, Inc. parasite. As a US taxpayer I relate very much to the Russian Federation. US, Inc. has treated both of us like subhuman garbage for decades. It has made me sick to watch intelligent, informed Russian officials treated as if they don't exist. 25 million Russian people died in WWII defeating Hitler. That fact was missing from history books when I was in school. Best wishes to the Russian Federation in its efforts.
I have been reading your Meaning in History since before Substack.
This is the most pessimistic post you have done.
It is not a criticism, just I am concerned you may be letting all this great daily reporting you do wear you down.
I don't think that's it. I've been thinking about some of this for several days. It's hard not to be pessimistic at times, when you realize the forces arrayed against us.
The District of Corruption Empire has gotten so rotten that it is a risk to the rest of the world, no longer just a risk to its own denizens and vassals. A demented President* and his entire freakshow administration, a delusional, dis-informed population, over financialization and de-industrial policies, a shining city on the hill, not really, a giant burning garbage heap is more like it.
Why now on splashing the drone?
1. Russians got tired of being “legally” spied on?
2. US tried for a deliberate provocation by turning off the transponder?
3. Russia is sending a message. Goes along with the hypersonic missile strikes targeting places with NATO Advisers.
4. Russian pilot taking initiative.
All 4 but 3 is the big one. The Russians are saying that from now on, it's only fair that those who are stoking global conflict and conflagration pay a PERSONAL price for their actions.
Probably all 4! I would say a US drone flying very near Crimea with the transponder off was a good enough reason to down it. Simplicus has a great post on this incident https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/breaking-russian-su-27s-finally-down
Tx. I hadn't checked Simplicius since this morning. There were some very interesting things in that long post.
Indeed! He was all over this drone incident. I find it hard to believe the Russians could only save the engine. Me thinks that is what they are only admitting to :)
Shot: "According to Yellen, the legalization of abortion nationally 'helped lead to increased labor-force participation. It enabled many women to finish school; that increased their earning potential.'"
Chaser: "The financial system is not supporting the industrial base and the US has come to think of its problems in pure dollar terms."
Labor-force participation. Industrial base.
Needless to say, those of us who grew up in the 1970s got the message loud and clear that working in a factory was hell, and no one should be consigned to hell by reason of birth. Therefore all Americans should go to college and get a college degree and a desk job. Especially women, who should control parturition by abortion if necessary.
By the 2000s, it was right and just to ship our dirty manufacturing to China because developmentally, they needed that work while we were ready to move on into clean green knowledge work, and we would get paid royally for our unparalleled creativity.
DiMartino-Booth refers to the era of zero interest rates, in which "...you [the little guy or gal] can't make a decent yield on cash savings." Yes, ZIRP was unfair to the little guys and gals who didn't want to run out and buy stuff.
I recall AfD (Alternative for Deutschland) which emerged in Germany after the 2008 financial crisis with the simple slogan "Save Our Savers". Ordinary people in Germany did not want to bail out the PIGS. So AfD had to be kneecapped; it was discredited by linking it with far-right agitation that coincided neatly with mass migration from Syria and elsewhere.
@Mark
"C’mon. We didn’t wind up in this situation—the rich at war to despoil the country and beggar everyone else—by some weird mistake. I won’t call it a conspiracy, but this didn’t happen by accident. The people who were smart enough to profit from this were also smart enough to suss out the consequences for everyone else. It’s war, and the face of evil."
Of course you're right: we have been asking for this for decades. Of course the people who were smart enough to profit from this were also the people who were smart enough to suss out the consequences for everyone else. But who were these people? I'm sure that when all is said and done and the 21st Century Nuremberg Trials are held there will be many held to account. Mrs Clinton, Obama, Biden, and the Sullivans, Blinkens, Yellens and Nulands, and the Faucis, will all be found in the dock.
To my mind, three additional candidates for eternal ignominy are the misleadingly-named 1999 Committee to Save the World: Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve; Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury; and Larry Summers, Rubin's Deputy. The name arises from a fawning 1999 Time Magazine article attributing demi-god status to the three. However, now, in hindsight, it looks like the hubris and arrogance of the three described in the article also describe perfectly the world view that has led the US to the brink of disaster. https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,19522,00.html
However, these three knew what they were doing. They were smart enough to see the potential profit for them and their acolytes and they were also smart enough to see the eventual consequences for everyone else. It was largely greed, and power, and access to power that motivated them, and so they charged ahead. Everybody got unbelievably rich over the ensuing 20 years. Now we are facing the consequences and, yes, it is war.
How did "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke elude your net?
Bernanke is vying with Obama for the most laughable and undeserved Nobel prize award.
Gross oversight. Apologies!
That last minute of Mercouris’ video was particularly moving. No-limits foreign policy, in which we throw our weight around instead of accepting other countries’ sovereign rights, carries over into no-limits monetary policy with the gov rescuing all those deep-pocket techies and big bucks donors…a real eye-opener - I’m just realizing what the consequences (yesterday’s post!) of such utter detachment from reality may be. Things are pretty bad when the Chinese sound moderate and rational!
Things are definitely hotting up on all fronts. There is simply no joined-up thinking on our side of the fence. Scary. And what is this Leftie thing with killing babies?
Plus destroying them after their born. I E this so called trans gender Bull shite. Doctors gleefully carving up little children’s bodies. When anything so insane ever been allowed by any civilized people?
No, this $$$$$$ is their god.
This is more than just mere money. It's pure evil.
I agree, but money, not the source of evil, but it buys a lot of it. The power brokers in our government are driven by $$$'s.
This confirms that the drone was flying with transponders turned off and was attempting to approach the Russian ships that were launching missile strikes.
Full statement of Ministry of Defense of Russia:
On the morning of March 14 this year, an American MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle flew over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula by means of the airspace control of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the direction of the State Border of the Russian Federation.
**The flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle was carried out with the transponders turned off, violating the boundaries of the area of the temporary regime for the use of airspace established for the purpose of conducting a special military operation, communicated to all users of international airspace and published in accordance with international standards.**
In order to identify the violator, fighters from the air defense forces on duty were lifted into the air. As a result of sharp maneuvering around 9.30 (Moscow time), the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle went into an uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface.
The Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons, did not come into contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle and returned safely to the home airfield.
Not very "routine" was it, Mark?
But not very environmental. Greta won't be pleased.
Who's trying to please Greta? No one with their head on their shoulders.
Powell is bringing a forest fire to the US (and global) economy. Like all forest fires, it will burn off massive amounts of dead wood. The question for me is how much healthy forest will be left to grow back afterward.
Laws against conflicts of interest are for peasants, peons, serfs, not for feudal lords and ladies, knights, princes, princesses, kings, queens, emperors, the Great Khaan, or other potentates!
Evidently they were able to salvage at least some of it.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/breaking-russian-su-27s-finally-down
I would not be surprised at all if Russian EW capabilities were the means used to put the MQ-9 UAV into 'uncontrolled flight' . . . meaning not controlled by the USAF anymore. The propeller hit narrative reeks of BS and spin.
Yeah ... the propeller "hit" indeed ... it hit the water. They didn't lie, it was just "miss"-information ... they miss their drone.
Precisely the reason for Putin's early-on characterization of the Clintonista, post-Realpolitik West as недоговороспособныe, or non-agreement-capable. Those blinded by dogma and academic theory will never be able to perform a reality-based assessment of exactly what can reasonably be achieved and conceded in a productive, real-world negotiation.
Agreed. Compare his response to Trump's blather at one of his "sold-out" rallies. Apparently, if he gets in again, he's going to drain the swamp.
MSNBC's Katie Phang already on it..."If DeSantis thinks that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a “territorial dispute,” he is a national security risk to the United States."
Foreign policy debates = national security threats. The new math.